Political party funding
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Political party funding
Political parties organize and manage all sorts of conflicts in democratic societies. Parties are the major actors of political competition. For their routine and campaign activities parties raise and spend funds. This is the subject discussed under "party funding."
If you are interested in the funding of political parties, you may want to consult a variety of pages on Wikipedia, especially
Beside these pages with a more general presentation of the subject there are various pages that cover individual countries.
Political parties organize and manage all sorts of conflicts in democratic societies. Parties are the major actors of political competition. For their routine and campaign activities parties raise and spend funds. This is the subject discussed under "party funding."
If you are interested in the funding of political parties, you may want to consult a variety of pages on Wikipedia, especially
- Political partyPolitical partyA political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
, look for the section on "party funding",
- Political financePolitical financePolitical finance covers all funds that are raised and spent for political purposes. Necessarily such purposes include all political contests for voting by citizens, especially the election campaigns for various public offices that are run by parties and candidates. Moreover all modern democracies...
with a general treatment of the subject,
- Campaign financeCampaign financeCampaign finance refers to all funds that are raised and spent in order to promote candidates, parties or policies in some sort of electoral contest. In modern democracies such funds are not necessarily devoted to election campaigns. Issue campaigns in referendums, party activities and party...
with a treatment that appeals more to U.S. readers.
Beside these pages with a more general presentation of the subject there are various pages that cover individual countries.
See also
- Political donations in AustraliaPolitical donations in AustraliaThe term political donations refers to gifts to a politician, a political party, or an election campaign.In Australia, the majority of political donations come in the form of financial gifts from corporations, which go towards the funding of the parties' election advertising campaigns. Donations...
- Federal political financing in CanadaFederal political financing in CanadaThe fair and transparent financing of political parties, candidates, and election campaigns is a key determinant in the health and proper functioning of a democracy...
- Party finance in GermanyParty finance in GermanyParty finance in Germany became an issue of political discourse, when in 1949 the concept of transparency was discussed in the constitional convention in connection with a new article to be entered into the constitution...
- Political funding in JapanPolitical funding in JapanIn Japan, the problem of political funding was intensely debated during the late 1980s and early 1990s, partly as a result of revelations following the Recruit scandal of 1988-89...
- Political funding in the United KingdomPolitical funding in the United KingdomPolitical funding in the United Kingdom has been a source of controversy for many years. There are three main ways a political party is funded. The first is through membership subs; the second is through donations; the third is through state funding.-History:...
- Campaign finance in the United StatesCampaign finance in the United StatesCampaign finance in the United States is the financing of electoral campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels.At the federal level, the primary source of campaign funds is individuals; political action committees are a distant second. Contributions from both are limited, and direct...
Books
- Gunlicks, Arthur B., Campaign and party finance in North America and Western Europe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
- Alexander, Herbert E., and Shiratori, Rei (eds.), Comparative political finance among the democracies. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994 ISBN 0-8133-8852-X.
- Austin, Reginald, and Maja Tjernström (eds.), Funding of political parties and election campaigns. Stockholm: International IDEA, 2003. (see http://www.idea.int/publications/funding_parties/upload/chapter_1.pdf)
Articles
- Paltiel, Khayyam Z., 'Campaign Finance. Contrasting Practices and Reforms'. In: Butler, David et al. (eds.), Democracy at the polls. A Comparative Study of competitive national elections. Washiongton, DC: AEI, 1981, pp. 138-172.
- Paltiel, Khayyam Z., 'Political Finance'. In: Bogdanor, Vernon (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Institutions. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1987, pp. 454–456.
- 'Party Finance', in: Kurian, George T. et al. (eds.) The encyclopedia of political science. vol 4, Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011, pp. 1187-1189.
External links
- http://www.rc20.ipsa.org/
- http://aceproject.org/epic-en/CDMap?question=PC12
- http://www.idea.int/parties/finance/db/
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm see Article "Party Financing" by K.Z. Paltiel and J.M. Wilson